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The Yakima Valley-based folk band, Planes on Paper, is releasing a new album May 31st, a 10-track LP called Edge Markings. The album is intricate and dark but also beautiful and buoyant. And we’re happy to premiere the newest single from the record, “All That’s Flesh Is Grass,” a song that wonders how the future…

We were so floored the other day to have been sent this article featuring so many familiar faces, including SMI founder Greg Roth and annual Timber! attendee Ashley Berg and her daughter, Piper. The reason for the article is “a forthcoming documentary film about cycling, cancer, mothers, their children and healing” called #WeRideWhy. So check…

Seattle pop-punk band Wiscon is breaking up. The band’s final show is this Friday at the Lo-Fi performance gallery (tickets available here). At the show, the group will release copies of their new record, The Finish Line, an energetic four-song EP featuring synths, quick rhythms and lyrics about, among other things, The Wizard Of Oz….

Seattle’s lilting-voiced singer Whitney Lyman is ready. On Tuesday, she will release her latest LP, Pleasure/Pain, with a show at the Triple Door (tickets here). The record’s a sweeping, theatrical work traveling from bright joy to quizzical melancholy. Backed by large chamber ensemble, Lyman, who recently played KEXP and Jimmy Kimmel Live with the famed…

The striking Frank Correa cover art for Sense of Us, the new release from Seattle electronica artist Vox Mod, depicts dual images of the musician (born Scot Porter) nude in a yin yang/fetal position, in the center of a tableau that’s somewhere between a coral reef and a psychedelic cellular organism. It’s an apt visual…

Seattle musician Sera Cahoone contains multitudes. In one moment, she’s a delicate acoustic guitar player, lending her voice to a song as strings swell and fall behind her. In another, she’s a ball of energy on the mic or while banging on a booming drum kit. Her latest accomplishment is a seven song EP showcasing…

NEW MUSIC ALERT! Today, the Seattle-based band Warren Dunes, released their latest single, “Running For Cover,” and we get to premiere it! So, check it out here: And to celebrate the event, we wanted to talk with Warren Dunes front woman Julia Massey, the uber-talented, warm-souled singer and songwriter about the band’s recent history, the…

News flash (not): This country’s pretty fucked right now. And maddeningly enough, that deeply profound state of fuckery is rooted in the elemental fact that even ideals that we hold to be self-evident can be yanked out from under us if we’re not vigilant. The most ostensibly obvious tenets of our country, the things that…

One of the most indelible images of your average live rock show is a club filled with people – some with long hair, some shirtless – holding plastic cups filled with beer, rocking. It’s a raucous, romping scene where you can imagine smokers on the sidewalks and whiskey shots until closing. But there are other…

Artistically, Raven Hollywood doesn’t seem scared of anything, though he has a lot of feverish curiosities. He represents a creative dualism that is always moving, always re-shaping but, as a result, never specifically grounded or tied to anything – well, except when it comes to matters of the heart and Raven’s close relationship with partner…

I’ve been navigating the sonic labyrinth that is Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines and Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star, the two-disc opus from hip-hop futurists Shabazz Palaces, for two months straight now. And in a lot of ways, I’m still happily lost in the damn…

The full-on 10-song-or-longer recorded album is for, all intents and purposes, an anachronism in a world where our rapidly-eroding attention spans demand instant gratification from music. But while the format is on the ropes, it’s not down for the count yet. I’d be the last to deny the elemental power of a great three-minute pop song….